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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Two Charges Filed In Circuit Court Against Firm Here Laughlin Alloy Steel company, Medford, is the target of two complaints filed in circuit court last week by two separate firms, CMC. Mining and Milling com pany, Sacramento, Calif., and M. M. Huggins, 180 White Oak dr., Medford. Huggins charges in the com plaint that the defendant has failed to pay a $3,000 promissory note due Dec. 12, 1955, and debt of $777.20 for petroleum products since Nov. 1, 1955. He is suing for both sums plus 6 per cent interest per annum until they are paid, plus $700 attor ney s fees. Attorneys for the plaintiff are Neff, Frohnmayer and Lowry. Complaint in Equity G M.C. Mining and Milling company has filed a complaint in equity against Laughlin Engin eering company, Los Angeles, Calif., and Laughlin Alloy Steel company. In the complaint, G.M.C. com pany states that on Sept. 15, 1952 it agreed to sell personal proper ty known as the G.M.C. Mill, about li mile west of Eagle Point, to Laughlin Engineering company for $100,000. The complaint further states that only $9,200 has been paid and the remainder, 590,800, well as 6 per cent per annum in terest, is overdue. According to the G.M.C. firm's statement, Laughlin Engineering company before the complaint in eauitv was filed, assigned a con ditional safes contract to Laugh lin Alloy Steel company, which also holds some claims on the property. What Firm Asks G.M.C. Mining and Milling company asks that any claims to the property held by Laughlin Alloy Steel company be declared null and void. The company also seeks immediate possession of the property, termination of the sales contract and forfeiture by Laughlin Engineering com pany of all money paid for the property to G.M.C.; judgment in Your Old Shovel IS WORTH AS MUCH AS Now At The Big Y Seed & Supply! Your Old Shovel I Worth The Down Payment On Any New Tiller or Tractor In Our Store! Coma in tody and a our Urga m lec tion ef tillara and tractors! LAWN SWEEPERS Were 35.50 Now C50 USED POWER LAWN . MOWER 2500 Open NORTH PACIFIC HIGHWAY OHar Good atJdl J Limited Tim yy MAIL TRIBUNE TERRIFIC IMPACT1 Impact was so great fa this crash that killed Harold Keller, 30, of Decatur, Ind. that it drove a partially smoked cigaret through the windshield. Keller, still in car, was a passenger in car driven by George Euson, 40, ef Franfort, Ind. who is in critical condition. They hit another car headon near Pekin, OL Warm Springs Indians To Gef More Receipts Portland (U.R) Warm Springs Indians will get a larger share of timber sales receipts begin ning July 1, Don C. Foster, Portland area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, re ported Saturday. Foster said the Indian Bureau has authorized a 3 per cent cut in deductions from timber sales receipts on the Warm Springs reservation. The deductions are made to help cover costs of for est management. the value of any property not redelivered to G.M.C. or proper ty which G.M.C. is unable to take into possession; and that Laughlin Engineering company be required to pay costs incurred by the re-possession as well as $2,500 attorney's fees. Irving C. Allen, Medford at torney, is representing G.M.C. Mining and Milling company. s 75.00 BUY NOW AND SAVE! BARBECUE SET 24" Braizer Type Now A 88 8 Only USED GARDEN TRACTORS 39 00 and up Monday thru Saturday 'til 9 p.m. Open Every Sunday 'til 6 p.m. MEDFORD, OREGON Sunday, Juns 24, 19SS '' ' cj Wrangle Develops Over Coast Drydock San Francisco U.R A bit ter wrangle between California and Washington over shipbuild ing activities arose Friday as two Bay area congressmen threatened to take on Sen. War ren Magnuson (D-Wash) in a committee fight. Republican Rep. William S. Mailliard and Democrat John F. Shelley, at a meeting of the Mayor's Shipbuilding committee sharply criticized Magnuson for assertedly trying to kill an ap propriation for a super drydock at San Francisco Naval shipyard. Mailliard said the Washington senator wants a . Forrestal-type supercarrier built at the Bremer ton, Wash., Navy Yard or'not at all. "If he wants to play the game, we can do it too," Mailliard said. If our drydock goes out in the Senate bill, I can promise that their drydock will go out when the Senate and House confer on a compromise bill." He added that TWhile we re fighting each other, the East gets what it wants because its con gressional representatives work together." Five Killed, 3,000 Homeless by Floods Seoul U.R) Five persons were killed and more than 3000 others made homeless Saturday by heavy rains which lashed the northern portion of the Re public of Korea for 30 hours starting early Friday. . Nine inches of rain fell In Seoul. Weather officials said it was the heaviest June rainfall on record. In Seoul, a 56-year-old man and two children were killed when their home was ' washed away. A woman was drowned in a river outside Seoul City. St' Louis Man Elected Head of Churchmen Milwaukee, Wis. U.PJ Carl J. Bender, St. Louis, Mo., real estate man, was elected na tional president of the Church men's Brotherhood of the Ev angelical and Reformed church Friday. Bender defeated Fred W. Ress, Lincoln, Neb., in voting by 700 delegates attending the church's sixth quadrennial con vention. ROBBED Portland (U.P) Elmer P. Sparks, 59, of Portland, told police Saturday he was sitting in his car Friday night when two women, armed with a switch blade knife, got into his car and robbed him of $280. STILL LIKES IKE Republi can National Chairman Leonard Hall summoned members of the arrange ments committee to Wash ington to complete plans for the party's 1956 national convention in San Francisco. Here Hall mops his brow with handkerchief inscribed I Like Ike,' . W"- if rS A Russians Wind Up Tour of Paris with Visit to Castle Paris flJ.PJ A group of jun keting Russians wound up their whirlwind tour of Gay Paree Saturday with a visit to Ver sailles Castle a national mon ument to one of the many non Communistic ears in history. The 447 Soviet tourists, the first to Visit France, moved on to La Havre last night for their boat trip to the Scandinavian countries. Before and after their stop at Versailles, the Russians split in to small groups and tramped the tree-lined boulevards, ogled the goods in the famous shops and watched the passing throngs from sidewalk cafes. Guests Friday They were the guests of honor Friday, night at the French Na tional Opera's presentation of Faust. They rolled up to the opera house in big buses and immedately were surrounded by curious Parisians. After the performance, many of the tourists slipped away for a taste of Paris high life and a peek at some of the night club nudes for the second night in a row. The Russians said they were "delighted" at the welcome giv en them by the French man in the street. Most Frenchmen who came in contact with them found them "tres gentil" very pleasant. But the Russians weren't an xious to talk politics. One well dressed man at the opera, when asked what he thought about the down-grading of Stalin, replied quickly: "We came here to see Faust not to drag up Stalin's memory." Dragnet Nets Police Department $52,000 Hollywood U.R) The po lice department has received $52,000 from producers of the TV program, "Dragnet." The funds were divided between the Police Relief association and a Police Academy classroom con struction project Jack (Sgt. Friday) Webb said the money was ior assistance given by the department for the 185 shows produced to date. He said more might be forthcoming it a full length feature "Drag net" film grosses over $5,000, 000. If. Col. Kliever Elected Commander Camp Murray, Wash (U.PJ Lt.. Col. Paul L. Kliever has been elected commander of the 162nd Infantry of the Oregon National Guard now on summer maneuvers at Camp Murray on the Fort Lewis reservation. , Election of regimental com manders by company command ers has been traditional since the days of the Indian wars when the Oregon malitia was' first organized. Col. Kliever en tered the ONG as a private and served throughout World War II with the 41st Infantry. Communist Chinese Guns Fire on Islands Taipei (U.R) Communist Chinese artillery stationed on Amoy and adjacent islands fired a total of 20 rounds on the Na tionalist off-shore bastion of Quemoy Saturday the National Defense Ministry reported. One civilian was killed and five houses destroyed on Que moy during the hour-long bom bardment, the ministry com munique said. CODE CHANGE ASKED Detroit (U.R) The Federal Civil Defense Administration has urged Detroit to change its building code so residents can build backyard bomb shelters, Maj. Gen. Clyde E. Dougherty of the FCDA complained that "the building code is so strict the average homeowner could not possibly build an approved type shelter." KID'S FIRE TRUCK Port Huron, Mich. JfU.RX Port Huron children have fire truck they can call their very own. The city council put the 1920 model truck up for sale but de cided to turn it over to the chil dren when the highest bid was only $220. Councilmen ordered the truck stationed in Optimist Park where children will have free access to it. MOVING? Save by Renting a BEE HIVE U - DRIVE Vans Stakes and Pickup-Trucks Also Avis ' RENT-A-CAR JIM'S SIGNAL TUNE-UP I REPAIR M Orap From 2-1241 RcBELS USE FIRE AGAINST BRITISH A British soldier (right) inspects two fire- futted trucks in a ditch after the vehicles were caught in a raging blaze that turned a unt for Cypriot rebel leaders into a fiery trap for the hunters on Cyprus. British au thonbes reported 19 men killed and 68 injured in the rebel-set blaze. The British were tracking down rebel chieftain, "General" George Grivas and believe they have nun caught inside a cordon of 2000 troops. James Conville to be Honored Wednesday Corvallis U.R Public of ficials from many parts of Ore gon will meet here Wednesday to honor James O. Convill, re tiring city manager of Corvallis. Douglas McKay, Governor El mo Smith, Portland Mayor Fred Peterson, Astoria Mayor Pete Cosovich, State Highway Engin eer R. H. Baldock, Oregon State College President A. L. Strand, and others will pay tribute to Convill at a dinner marking the end of a lifetime of public ser vice. Convill is required by state law to retire. He is 72. He has been .manager of Cor vallis for seven years. Prior to that he was city manager at As toria for 15 years. He has been commissioner of the Port of As toria, superintendent of parks at Portland, and managed the first veterans commission in Oregon. He served for years with the League of Oregon. Cities and un til recently was league treasurer. He was a football star at Pur due university at the turn of the century. Convill said he has no imme diate plans for the future. He owns a large farm near Forest Grove. Succeeding him will be John F. Porter, former city man ager at Grants Pass., Dead tine Sunday Classified la at at noon Saturday. JACKSON t 1 I I Entertainer Arrested Here For Tax Evasion Ted A. Taylor, Portland, a ventriloquist and nightclub en tertainer, was arrested here Fri day by Deputy U. S. Marshal Paul Hanlin under a federal grand jury indictment charging him with tax evasion. Taylor has been lodged in the Jackson county jail, and is awaiting transportation to Port land to face the federal charge. He has been appearing at a Medford-area night club. Nehru Looking To Commonwealth Talk London !U.R India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said Saturday that he looks forward to the forthcoming British Com monwealth conference as a clear ing house of differing views among nations. He added that India has no idea of leaving the British fam ily of nations despite the fact that many of its members dis agree with his government over general policy. "If I am not an obstacle to the others, I think there is no harm in staying," Nehru told news men. The Indian leader arrived here yesterday for the conference starting next Wednesday. En route from New Delhi, he stop ped briefly at Damascus, Athens and Rome. -Ipi? Kids have the goldarnest amount of energy. They play hard.. .learn fnt...ileep soundly... grow like weeds. How do they do kl They've got the advantage of being more recent models of course newer body styles and all that. But a large part of the answer lie in the fuel they run around on. Milk's their petrol, and it's pretty hard to beat Loaded with VCP (vitamins, calcium, protein), milk gives them mileage like jom haven't gotten since you wc a kid. fumtj thing ebout this fuel it works fine in older models, too. Tried it recently? COUNTY MILK PRODUCERS LEAGUE FATALLY INJURED Salem J.R Alphie P. Wright, 46, Salem, was fatally injured Friday when his automo bile went out of control and left a country road near here. LOVE BY AIR Worcester, Mass. (U.R) High school senior Roger Salmonsen, 17, uses homing pigeons to com municate with his girl friend, who lives in another city and has no phone. As Your Car Grows Older, i...:!.:ll.zJmr ' -Win' 1 IfM. ITU STEP-DOWN PLAN LOWERS CR&ZIEST CONTRACT AWARDED Portland (U.R) Floyd Grahra Construction company of Leba non has bee nawarded a $31,206 contract by the corps of engin eers for repair and construction of bank protection works along 1 both banks of the Long Tom river downstream from Fern Ridge reservoir. Dead line Sunday nasal fled la at -at noon Saturday. MORE FUN! Vacation Tours to !golden west days. Enjoy comfortable room every night, and these fea tures: Columbia River Gorge, Salt Like City ( with sightseeing ) , across scenic Nevada to Reno, sightseeing in San Francisco. Re turn trip via Redwood High way, Oregon Coast. Other stops: Doue, turcica. $79 Double room rate, per person, pi us u. irurn Medford. Price subject to change. TOUR INCLUDES TRANSPORTATION HOTEL ROOMS, AND SIGHTSEEING GREYHOUND MEDFORD DEPOT 212 N. 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